Internal LU

    The citizen’s income is a policy that could unite Left Unity, and put us on the road to socialism, says Stuart Watkins of the Leamington Spa group   If one thing is certain it is that, when Left Unity is formally established in November, the new party will be an explicitly socialist one. […] Read more »

This draft constitution is based on the earlier one drawn up by Richard and James.  I started out by writing a very long list of amendments to their July iteration, but I found that it became virtually impossible to follow the sense of what was being proposed because of the length and complexity of the […] Read more »

DETAILED CONSIDERATION OF WORKING DRAFT 4 Welcome back to the Internal democracy constitution. Following the various comments on the website and on Working Draft 3, we are presenting a Working Draft 4.. This draft has attempted to address some of the controversies that have arisen. We will be posting a document separately listing all the main […] Read more »

The debate around the working draft has gone on for a few weeks now and produced some useful ideas and points. Firstly, thank you for all the kind words and positive comments on the draft. As you will appreciate drawing it up as convenors was a difficult and time consuming task and the issues involved […] Read more »

Joe Lo, from Haringey Left Unity, discusses the issue of machinery and argues for economic democracy. The premise that machines are taking over the world has been common in science fiction for decades. Bladerunner, Doctor Who, I Robot, Artificial Intelligence. The list is endless. Like all good science fiction premises however these films exaggerate a […] Read more »

We would like to invite you to participate in the anti-racist workgroup recently launched by Left Unity, say Ishan Cader and Luke Cooper. Its remit is to develop policies for concrete anti-racist struggles for a new party to the left of Labour: not simply ‘in the abstract,’ but as practical proposals for campaigning to tackle […] Read more »

A debate has opened up among Left Unity (LU) supporters in relation to the political and strategic orientation and organisational form of the new party of the left that those involved in the LU project aim to launch this November, says Ed Rooksby. Three competing ‘platforms’ have emerged, each proposing a distinct set of founding […] Read more »

A contribution to the discussion from Chris Strafford. Tom Walker’s (International Socialist Network) article in defense of the Left Party Platform raised some important questions about the Socialist Platform that I support. I was not, however, convinced by the article and, whilst I enjoy Tom’s writing, his piece falls into the old arguments and the […] Read more »

In this post Robert Eagleton of Preston Left Unity explains why he is pledging support to the Socialist Platform, and what he believes the Socialist Platform offers which the other platforms do not. I came into Left Unity, as I suspect many of us did, with being let down by the reformist parties and feeling […] Read more »

Colin Piper, from Brighton Left Unity, argues for the Socialist Platform by challenging the consensus view of recent Labour Party history and suggesting there are lessons of relevance to our current discussions. There is a narrative, unquestioningly accepted and repeated ad nausea by the mainstream media, that the Labour party lost four successive elections between […] Read more »